David Fincher’s latest feature, The Killer, debuted on Netflix Friday night. The film is a meticulously crafted thriller that showcases both Fincher’s visionary eye and star Michael Fassbender’s magnetic subtlety. The Killer follows an unnamed professional assassin who, after a…
Personal Note: I have been out of circulation these past two fortnights, keeping up with a slew of pre-scheduled medical appointments, all part of the standard regimen to assure lung transplant patients can continue writing long-term for The American Spectator. Adam Sandler’s new Netflix…
The new film Miracle in East Texas tells a true story of redemption that took place during the East Texas oil strike of the Great Depression. Available in theaters on Oct. 29 and 30, the film features Sam Sorbo alongside…
Helen Mirren does it again. The British Meryl Streep has confirmed the stunning breadth of her dramatic range. Among dozens of memorable roles, the 78-year-old actress has portrayed Queen Elizabeth II, Maria Altmann — the owner of painter Gustav Klimt’s…
Everything has become pink, childish and pastel, like the brain of one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Barbie invades everything with its child-alluring aesthetics, the confident smiles of the grown-ups. It has permeated billboards and storefronts; it has infiltrated major brand fashion lines;…
In this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, American Spectator publisher Melissa Mackenzie and contributing editor (and publisher of TheHayride.com and RVIVR.com) Scott McKay talk about how President Joe Biden; his family — daughter Ashley, son Hunter, and brother James; and nearly all of the D.C. elites…
Barbie, the much-anticipated, pink-painted summer blockbuster, has generated a broad spectrum of visceral responses from critics and moviegoers since its July 21 release. The cotton-candy-colored cinematic confection has been described as everything from a $100 million–plus Mattel commercial to the…
This weekend saw the nationwide debut of possibly the most-anticipated film of the past decade, director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a cinematic biography of the man considered the father of the atomic bomb. Like many of Nolan’s films, Oppenheimer is a…
It’s a phenomenon as old as human culture itself. Il Paradiso represented a falling-off from Il Purgatorio. Paradise Regained wasn’t quite up there with Paradise Lost. Twain’s later Tom Sawyer books don’t hold a candle to the original adventures of…
